The acid having kicked in mere minutes before (and the corncob pipe having unwittingly drawn his head downwards unwares) Wolfgang mistook his floor for a chess board, whereupon he found a mate in four in the carpeting.

In the pre-olive oil days, young popeye spent many an hour sat playing chess....as you can observe from the picture, the spinach that fell from his pipe made even his chess set grow bigger, it was only in his later years that it started to affect his biceps .